00:00Not the best day to be wearing white for, but you know what? It's fine. Let's do this.
00:06Is your anything more beautiful or more sensual?
00:09Hey AD, welcome to my favorite place in Los Angeles, the farmer's market. Let's go spend some money.
00:25I come from Boston. We only had farmer's markets like on Sunday in the summer. And here it's a
00:31farmer's market I can go to every day, 12 months a year. The farmer's market is so special. It was
00:36started in the great depression and farmers would just come with their little stands and
00:40trucks of produce. And that's how it started. And now it's where Mindy Kaling can get her donuts and
00:46coffee and baklava and rotisserie chickens. We're in front of Bob's Coffee and Donuts. This place is
00:51iconic, especially for screenwriters and TV writers who just like to come and get food here and just
00:57sit and write. I'm actually surprised there's only two people in front of me. I've never seen a line
01:02this short before. A couple of reasons why this place is iconic. Great coffee. I'm not a big coffee
01:06drinker, but I will drink the coffee here. Another thing, I love jelly donuts, but I will only eat
01:10jelly donuts with raspberry jelly in them and they have them here. They're delicious. And they fly off
01:15the shelves. Clearly we have like the old fashioned, their crumb cake is delicious, but it's really just
01:22about these two. Raspberry jelly filled and of course a Dodgers donut next to each other. A perfect marriage,
01:30some might say. I probably had my first Bob's donut with my friend BJ when we were working at the
01:35office. I was like 24 and we both lived by the Grove in the farmer's market and he loves coffee
01:42and he
01:43absolutely loves this place. I'll have a jelly, please. Jelly? Do you want it with powdered sugar or
01:48paste powdered sugar? Yeah, powdered sugar. Thank you. Anything else? Um, I think that's all. Well, actually
01:54a couple napkins. Not the best day to be wearing white for, but you know what? It's fine. Let's do
02:00this.
02:04I mean, is there anything more beautiful or more sensual?
02:11I feel that the jelly donut is the donut equivalent of a tuna fish sandwich, which is it's not for
02:17everyone, but the people who love it, love it. I feel like the reason I love the farmer's market is
02:23that it's been with me for every point. Like when I was 24 and I just moved here and I
02:29hated LA and I was
02:30so homesick. I would come here and get food that I could afford and feel like I was part of
02:35something.
02:35And now I have three little kids and I live 10 minutes away and I can still come here.
02:45All right. So now we're outside of Monsieur Marcel. I love this place. It is both a restaurant
02:52and a little artisanal grocery store and gift shop. It's just everything you could ever want.
02:57You feel completely transported when you're here.
03:05Let's see what we got here. Have you ever seen this many beautiful mustards in your entire life?
03:11Well, this is just an amazing Dijon, but this honey balsamic, delicious. Well, I feel like mustards are
03:18for different things. A Dijon is for a sandwich. Yellow mustard is only for cut up hot dogs.
03:24Do you know what I mean? Okay. Look, I know that tinned fish and smoked fish is very trendy right
03:29now.
03:30I'd like to think that I was ahead of the curve. You can ask any writer in the Mindy Project.
03:33And in 2014,
03:34I was eating smoked oysters out of a can in the writer's room. Did not make me very popular with
03:39my coworkers. An insane selection. Mackerel. Great for your hair. Delicious.
03:47My kids run screaming when I do this at the house, but I love it. I'll open some tin fish,
03:53put some hot sauce, which you can also buy here, and just eat it straight out of the can.
03:58These mussels? Insane. I have the taste of an alley cat.
04:08Look, it's not just food. You can buy, like, a giant happy birthday card here the size of a folder.
04:19We're Rife I Light My Fire, which sells hot sauces. I think in one article many years ago
04:25said I love hot sauce, which is true. There's literally hot sauce in my bag. It is now the
04:30present that I get more than anything in the world. I love hot sauce, so I love this place.
04:34This place is really a gem.
04:44Magic Nut & Candy has it all. You can hear the popcorn popping in the back. It smells delicious.
04:50I think anyone who's known me for more than five seconds knows that I am a candy fiend.
04:54It started when I discovered craft services on the side of The Office, and I was like,
04:58we can just eat all of this. Since then, my palate has developed a little bit more. But, like,
05:03this isn't basic. You're not just going to find, like, Sour Patch Kids and Jawbreakers. Guys,
05:08we're talking about Mango Chamoy. They literally have everything. They have licorice. They have
05:14chocolate. They have chocolate-covered raisins. Chocolate-covered everything. I absolutely love this place.
05:31Okay, we saved the best for last. We are at Singapore's Banana Leaf. This is not only my
05:35favorite restaurant in the farmer's market, this is one of my hands-down favorite restaurants in Los
05:40Angeles. Obviously, I'm Indian, and I love these kind of curry flavors. This place rocks. It is so good. The
05:48paratha here, the roti curry here is so good. You can get it super spicy. It's just, like, a wonderful
05:54comfort meal. It's perfect. And my son and I both absolutely love this place.
06:04One of the reasons I love LA so much is besides giving me my career, it is incredibly family-friendly.
06:12I'm a single mom with three kids. Most of my life is trying to find things to do with my
06:16kids. There's not that
06:17many places that are just true community gathering spots, and the farmer's market is that. It's just
06:23truly such a gem, such a special place in LA. When I moved to LA, it was just for my
06:28career. I would
06:29have given anything if Hollywood had actually been on the East Coast. And now I'm so in love with this
06:34place. I love that I can be here and achieve all my career dreams, but then have, like, a dreamlike
06:41childhood for my kids. So I think this place is so special, and there's nothing like LA.
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